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  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying ... your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... Midway, I'll just try and cover the aspects of Orientation that have not

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... I have responded to all of your comments and emails (this time, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  followed with immediate mention of “troubling data” and “important decisions ... the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message: There is a good chance you’ve heard about this already, since a lot of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  i had SUCH a nice President’s Day weekend. a lot of it was consumed ... first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my ... , grabbing dinner as a team, and putting egregious amounts of stage makeup on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the past few months, Nashua conjures images of flatness and tranquility, of quiet car rides punctuated only by the soft hum of the engine as trees flow endlessly past the window, of loneliness and stagnancy and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  not a byte, more of a museum nerd than your typical MIT student, which ... 's current exhibit of Tavares Strachan's show, Orthostatic Tolerance: It Might Not Be Such a Bad Idea if I Never Went Home, is really one of the best

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw ... I reached the Huntington Street entrance of the MFA that afternoon

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside ... how my mother "recycled" the reverse sides of our old drafts of papers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their embryonic guts over the creamy, supple blankness of winter vacation. This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total of five, maybe six hours at most. But even those brief experiences were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Let’s talk about science…and chocolate A day of scientific enlightment followed by one of chocolate consumption.

  

  In Ancient Greece, the word “symposium” referred to a gathering of ... students of a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The event officially began ... by Dr. Roderic Ivan Pettigrew, the director of the National Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’ve Been Staring At The Edge of The {Charles River} 'long as I can remember, never really knowing why

  

  , where I long to be... Okay I'm done now. I've taken way too many photos of ... second of the day, so did every second of being at MIT.  Sometimes, the twinkling lights of the Prudential tower accompanied me into the late hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  emergency blog post because Lilly Chin ‘17 just won Jeopardy and is also the greatest of all time "who is the spiciest memelord?" it's you

  

  befriend some of the best and brightest minds in America and around the world ... Admissions officer. CONGRATS LILLY YOU ARE THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. WE ALL ... Of Lilly that MIT suddenly had a custom snapchat filter activated on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  in France. The students of JSF 2018 and our chaperone, Prof. Perreau (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... Paris exploring the history and culture of the city and speaking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018